Or, maybe he was about to say something REALLY stupid, and/or do something really stupid, like spill his coffee all over her. The only way to prevent that would be to go back in time, beat his mouth shut, and drink the coffee before in could be spilled. Date saved.

so…i wanna know wut made him lose his coffee in the first place to create the time paradox of him traveling in time to beat his own ass to get coffe and having it do that for unspecified amount of time streams….but i found it very hilarious…and i heard u work on Ugly Americans…then i say thank u for this comic and wutever u do for the show cuz i just fucking love that show….

ur working on a different one? aww..oh well…i guess that’s the life of an animator if u think about it….wuts the new one ur working on? (pardon my bad spelling…sometimes im too lazy to spell simple ass words…even though i use correct punctuation)

pay attention to the 7-9 panels. He goes back in time, beaks himself up, steals his own coffee, then goes back to where he started, and time duplicate Commander-Badass, now goes back in time to fight himself (on the winning side this time) and steal his own Coffee.

Noobsauce was right… and I’m more than a little disappointed that there could ever even be any confusion about it. He went back in time to beat himself up in retaliation for … the act of going back in time and beating himself up.
Or to put it another way… he did it because he had already done it, and thus it had to be done… or else it would cause a paradox… and…. I’m starting to think in terms of Homestuck temporal mechanics.

Anyway… there was absolutely no external cause nor purpose to it. The act was self-fulfilling.

Kinda like how I intend to build a time machine to go back in time to kidnap myself before the actual kidnapper (who I never identified) grabbed me as a child! I’m not going to reveal myself to former me though, time paradoxes are scary!

Not sure what’s wrong, but know that there are people out there that really enjoy your work and hope you can continue it. My friends and I can’t wait for the update when it comes out, and get a real kick out your humor and art style. Remember that the people who scream and shout are a small minority in most situations, and the larger group that simply appreciates your work often does not take the time to tell you so. So, thank you. Hope you feel better soon.

The comment on the post was just saying next week is going to be the last week of this arc and after that I’ll go back to drawing things that people won’t send me angry emails about, and when one of the first comments was scolding me for that I figured I should change it before I woke up new another avalanche of people sending me angry letters. This is becoming a damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-don’t scenario, and this week has gotten off to a particularly frustrating start.

I don’t need people handing out asspats and telling me I’m great, I’m not fond of the whole circlejerk mentality, I just wish people didn’t have to complain at every corner that I’m not drawing original characters or drawing too many original characters or not drawing enough gyarados or making references to games they don’t know or putting ads on the site or not drawing nice enough that week or whatever.

I’m a musician. I get those angry emails too. They’re always annoyed, always hyper-critical, and are always from uninformed morons who simply don’t play instruments, who have no arranging skills or harmonic knowledge, yet believe they’re the only ones who can help you fix what is ‘wrong’ with your music.

The unique combination of furious anger and rampant stupidity on display is hard to put into words, so I made one up: “Indignorant”. Learn to filter out indignorant comments from the uninformed, and only pay attention to those from mentors or peers you know you respect

And sorry, I’m going to throw in a big asspat here, as to why this is the best webcomic I’ve ever seen:

– Firstly, you can actually draw. It mind seem obvious to point it out, but it’s not a prerequisite to have a popular webcomic.

– Your characters have active lives, and you show this through the staging each week. It makes the characters realistic, and grounds them in the world. They don’t just exist in front of a couch, commenting about video games.

– Your characters are *acting*. Even when the humour is dialogue-based, your characters are cleaning guns, flipping through magazines, sipping coffee, walk-and-talk. They’re not standing there, staring into space, waiting to say their line.

– Your facial expressions are unique and funny. You take the time to make their faces act as well. ‘Family Guy’ doesn’t do this. Most modern CGI movies don’t don’t this beyond the ‘attitude’ smirk. The Warner Brothers cartoons *did* do this, which made them entertaining. Ditto ‘Calvin and Hobbes’, or ‘Ren and Stimpy’.

– Your original characters aren’t stereotypes, and aren’t Mary Sues, and actually develop over time. The Commander is patient and well-grounded, considering his job. His relationship with Jared could have been a one-dimensional masculinity vs. nerd riff, but he obviously has a fatherly affection towards him, and despite their differing outlooks, doesn’t seem to be trying to mould him into a mini-Commander.

Jonesy isn’t a ‘pretty mouthpiece’ or ‘token female’. She’s not the standard mother substitute / figure of disapproval clucking her tongues over the Boy’s outlandish behaviour you see in almost every webcomeic. She’s a sense of curiousity; seems a bit of a Tomboy and fits in easily with the guys – which is why i suspect the Commander is only just registering that “Yes, she is female”; and has a very relaxed, easy-going disposition despite the extreme behaviour going on around her. She’s not going to sprain her ankle and helplessly wait to be saved. She’s basically Doctor Who Companion material. Thank you for this.

– Your original characters can stand alone, without the video game characters.

While I haven’t seen these emails that put you in a bad mood, I can say quite honestly that I don’t come here every Monday to see what video game character has been thrown into the comic. I come here because this is a damn good comic, and I want to see what adventures [i]The Commander and Jared[/i] are having, not because “gay chicken” is being screamed by two well known faces from other media I enjoyed. Now, I admit, that is what drew me to this comic initially, as a friend of mine stumbled on the “pokepark” strip and shared it with me, but that’s not why I come here every week.

Let me just finish by saying that even though it’s very popular, and frequently funny when I get linked, I don’t read Penny Arcade because it just hasn’t ever hooked me. So yes, you beat PA because you draw me back here every week. I can’t be bothered to follow PA since it never hooked me.

Your story is my story, except with the Big Daddy at daycare. This thing is great and I’ve seen it evolve more than I could have hoped or predicted; I say have an asspat, take the rest, and try to feel better.

In my opinion, those who send angry emails about online comics deserve to be fed to the trolls.this story arc is awesome! be defiant of those über (yes that is the true spelling of the German word for super) morons. they have done nothing that deserves you capitulating to their demands! Of course.\, that is if you want to. I have no opinion on continuing the story arc one way or the other

Nothing to say that hasn’t been said already so I’ll simply reiterate some of the other comments. You do a great job, whether or not you needed to hear (read) it here. And like what Legowombat said, you can’t please everyone.

Don’t let this be “work” on you, it should be enjoyable. If it isn’t enjoyable right now take a breather, we’ll be here when you get back.

Also, I like what you are doing with this weeks arc. I’ve been waiting to see the commander in a fight and I am not disappointed in the least.

They have no right to bitch at you for YOUR comic. XD I bet they can’t even draw for most part! I love your art and comic. I’m even showing my army friend this. He reminds of your commander in a way besides the haircut. I think he will like this comic.

Question though? Has your commander ever ridden in a tank and ran someone over it? My army friend Chris, told me his dumb friends ran over a sleeping guy on accident. Luckily it was a small tank and the guy lived, only his pelvis squished looking like used up toothpaste.

People are free to have opinions, you don’t need to draw to know what you like to look at just like you don’t need to write music to know what songs you like to listen to or direct film to know what movies you like to watch. I would just prefer people come to me with their problems before they start making threats on Reddit or wherever, that doesn’t help solve anything. If Vorked has written something on the site and I haven’t responded to any comments or answered any emails about it, chances are I haven’t seen it yet.

Yes opinions but just plain bitching at you. Shouting nonsense, making no sense is not an opinion. It’s ignorance not shutting up. Something like “Commander guy looks gay! He’s such a wuss! Blah blah blah!” That is not an opinion. That is some immature dumbass. It’s called hate mail for a reason and most of it is full of BS that don’t make sense to any average person. Ignoring them works. It just sounds like they want you to update more since they are paying attention and reading the comic, they “claim” to hate. Take a break if need be, I think your comic is grand :)

Doesn’t that come with the job as a webcomic writer? You’ll always get haters no matter what you do…. I like to think that the better the comic the more haters one would receive, due to well drawn art, good script, or just many fans in general.

In a way, this is like high school bullies who just mock your art and spit out profanity that make no sense at it…

It’s your story, people have no right to complain about where it’s going. If they want to give some feedback, that’s good, but hell, spamming and mocking it is a bit to much > >

I don’t really care about people complaining about where the story is going, they’re free to read what they want. I have just had my fill of entitled bitching this week, and figured I would beat the people to the chase before they start piling angry “why is there no gyarados this week” and “I thought this was supposed to be a game comic” letters on top of all the “you’re a bitch for having ads and I’m going to host your comics somewhere else without crediting you” I’ve already waded through. All that negativity kinda piles up on you, yanno. Kind of makes it not seem worth it.

The internet just sucks sometimes. As a blog that gets more attention then I want, and I have to deal with people who have said they’d kill me because I didn’t like a book by a particular author. The internet isn’t a blank check to say what you want.

But there does come a time where you need to step back, take a break, try not to piss off people for awhile, and pray it works.

And if it means anything, before I had to leave, the only thing I had on my door at college was one of your comics. I liked it that much.

Yeah, I had some guy once complaining on Reddit about how I deserved to die a horrible painful death for some Metwo picture I drew once or something and I guess was trying to solicit someone to draw a picture of a metwo killing me? I dunno, takes all kinds.

Well I doubt Mewtwo wouldn’t fight back. I just imagined it as a Peter Griffin chicken fight type of thing. What were they fighting over btw? My assumption is spaghetti because you don’t mess with the spaghetti of a guy named Giovanni.

Thanks Coelasquid – now I can’t be sure if I am paying you a legitimate compliment, or an asspat. o.O

That said, today’s comic cracked me up. The transition from panel 7 to 8 is a thing of beauty/ugly. (Boogly!) The Commander, relieved that his stupid fucking ordeal (which was caused by his own stupid fucking self) is over, can finally pour that coffee down into his wounded mouth. So worth it!

I guess your perception of the events was a little different at the time this was all going down. But wouldn’t it be cool to have a picture of Mewtwo killing you? Wouldn’t you be curious as to what another artist would come up with?

If it were me, and (this is a big if) assuming that I wasn’t too upset by the crazy person, I might want to get the piece framed. Think of the conversations!

“Uh, what’s that on your wall?”
“Oh, it’s a pokemon bio-engineered to be a mindless weapon. He’s killing me. What should I get for lunch?”

I’d just like to say my friends and i in Ireland absolutely love your comic. We studying to be animators/game designers and we all love this website. Pls Pls Pls don’t freak out so much. We have to live with the crazy people. i suppose the problem here is ur super awesome so every1 can actually get their crazy at you. if it helps i tried to tab tetragrammaton by the mars volta by listening to it one time and the only person in the room who couldn’t play any instruments told me i got it wrong and i’m tone deaf. i usually fix it by breaking stuff

I’m really sad to hear you’re getting these crazy, angry comments and mails…but it happens to anyone who gets any kind of publicity. Some people simply feel they are entitled to make requests about how someone ELSE does their things and then get mad if things don’t go their way. I’ve never understood such mentality, and there’s really nothing you can do about it except to learn to ignore it all.

That said, I haven’t written a single comment here before, this is my first one. I often don’t make a single peep about things I enjoy, I just let things roll on their own weight and enjoy the show. I just felt that it might be a good idea to pop in and do a “Me too” here: I really enjoy this comic and I want to see more. What, how and when on the other hand is all up to you, seeing what you come up with next is all part of the charm!

Long-time reader, first time poster. Despite the animosity you hold towards ass-patting and circle-jerking (which some may say you take an unfairly harsh view of) I’m posting to say that I love you and your comic, and I want you to keep doing comics of WHATEVER YOU WANT. You’re the one who knows if it’ll turn out awesome anyway. Screw the haters. And a Commander Badass story arc sounds excellent.

When you get a comment, if it starts looking complainy, stop reading it.
If you get an e-mail and it starts looking complainy, delete it.

There will always be arseholes who think that their way is better than yours or that you’re doing everything wrong.
There’s no way to avoid them if you put your work into the public eye.
All you can really do is ignore them because as long as you’re putting your work out there they will be dicks about it.

sorry to hear about that. I guess people feel entitled to what they want when they want it, forgetting that you are human, and that a weekly comic (colored, no less) is work.
I love your comic, but if you need a break, take one.

*hugs* I find the amount of drama going on over this over the last two days is insane. You and Vorked work too hard to deal with shit like this. My suggestion: stop reading the hate mail and look at all the supporters you have. The more you feed the trolls, the more they multiply. This is your baby, and you are free to do what you want with it. Also, a bubblebath with a glass of wine (or hot chocolate) is also a good alternative.

I honestly didn’t mean it like that, sorry. I was more referring to the fact you’ve been constantly mentioning on the internets that you have almost no free time and run on 4 hours of sleep a day and if people can’t stop being entitled weenies about the comic you should tell them to cram it and go take a break for a bit. I’ve met people who worked on similar schedules for a while and they’re still on medication for the various health issues they picked up, and it bums me out when you mention everything else you have to deal with and have to tell people for the 20th time that you can’t just pull t-shirts out of your butt, yet you’re still harassed by the weenies. Soo… yeah.

Uhh… Wow. It looks like it’s all been said already, but i think i wanna say a little bit here :)
I’ve been reading MGDMT since episode 2 (No kidding), and I love it. People should only criticize what they can do better, and even then it should be constructive. Squiddy, keep up the bloody comic and shoot those who oppose you! DAMN SPACE COMMIES ARE GOING DOWN! >.<

Going to have to take a step out and say some of this is retarded. The point where he reaches out and begins to criticize companies for using the word epic. So now one can use it? It automatically means companies are trying to be hip? That is pure BULLSHIT.
Epic Mickey is titled that for a reason. You are emersed in an inked, very large, very strange world, which is where the title epic comes in. Its a saga of Mickey trying to fix shit.
Same with the Samsung Epic, they used the word Epic to describe the incredible amount of shit you can do with that phone. Its a Droid phone, it can do more than anyone thinks, trust me about that one.

And fuck Samsung. Calling your phone and “epic” makes me not buy your phone. I don’t care what it does, we don’t call swiss army knives “epic knives”. Buy the new Samsung Teenage Buzzword! It does lots of conventient shit! Now I just wait for money to roll in.

There is now a small cavity-prevention mint called “Epic”. I only know this because my 74-year-old Dad just purchased a great big box of them. I’m waiting for deodorants and nacho chips to become “epic”, just like they became “EXTREME!” about ten years after everyone else stopped saying it :D

Not true! As long as the one he went back in time to beat up eventually went back in time to beat himself up, it wouldn’t go wrong. The only limit I would really say is a week or two maximum between the initial fight and the going back in time.

But why did the original one (the one at the very beginning of this chain) do it? Or is this the result of the timestream balancing itself out after the Commander dropped his coffee that was meant to be drunk, or just balancing out his actions after dropping said coffee by forcing this loop into existence?

Actually, I’m pretty sure there’s a better reason. That’s his past self, right? How many times have you wished to go back in time and beat the stupid out of your past self?

It’s still badass though, as you bully yourself to improve yourself both in the past and the present, meaning you have trained twice as hard through the action, and if you cause a cycle like this, well, you’ve trained pretty damn hard.

Also, everyone knows that stuff you had in the past was much more badass than what you had now, especially when you first get it, so it makes sense that you must go back and steal it while it is still badass (nostalgia’s a myth perpetrated by without timetravel to explain why their stuff has stopped being as awesome. The truth is that the BA energy must return back to the source so that it may be used to power new things you will own).

I seriously wonder how the whole thing happened. I mean, currently the commander is just going to beat himself up to get his coffee. But why would the first commander go back in time and beat himself up to get coffee? What would his reason be? Did his coffee fall on the ground and was he too cheap to buy a new one?

And why would the current commander go back in time? The commander there wouldn’t be the one that beat him up but rather the one in the future.

I just finished going through this whole series the other day and I am officially hooked. I love this comic, it’s fucking awesome. I need to print out the comic with Kratos as Carrie and show it to a friend at work who is practically in love with Kratos. It’ll be awesomesauce.
I feel as though this comic needs to be accompanied by the underscore “It’s good to be men!” Ha! Ha! Ha! Watch me wrestle this BEAR. *poses in a manly pose*
Random person: You’re a girl!
Shut up!

Nuuuuuuuuuu don’t stop the comics!
My friends have been trying to force me into read web comics forever, but I always thought they were too stupid. Then I stumbled on this one accidentally, and I’m totally hooked! Ignore people saying mean things, your comics are hilarious, and as far as web comics go, REALLY well done.

But wait, if the commander is going to get back the coffee by beating himself up… the other commander ought to stay? I mean, he’s not going back in time again too is he? Oh well, timey wimey.

As for the entitled whiners, I feel you. I helped run a (now defunct) webcomic site with an artist friend, kind of like Vorked here, and the whiners and entitled unhelpful “superfans” really took all the joy out of an already uphill struggle. I wouldn’t blame you if you replaced the comic with an “ADBLOCKED” image and took a month off, let them stew on it.

Going off to reddit to start a boycott campaign over ads? How retarded can you get. But, links is links, traffic’s traffic. They may come for the drama, but some will stay for the machismo.

GAH! i dont know who to cheer on! commander or commander!? i will just settle and hope a giant space jellyfish ridden by skeletor attacks and they both kick his ass. then get coffee and discuss which is better: issacs new javelin bolt as opposed to the torque bow used by the gears

Ignore the screaming idiotic masses of the internet.
If they knew how to write webcomics, they’d have there own.
You are obviously doing a very well and original job.
I am currently setting aside my beloved bearded troll face because you deserve the support your ruggedly awesome comic deserves.
Screw what people think. Screw the police. It makes life funner/funnier, trust me.

this is what make the time line comander is beaten up and got his coffee stolen by himself so he goes back in time beats up himself and steals the coffee and time travles back to the time he left so for jonesy what she see’s is comander go back in time and back to the time he traviled from in like a second and the reason it started is there from the begining and end it never started and never ends

I love your webcomic Coelasquid! Don’t ever let the haters get to you. They are just losers that think the world revolves around them. Seen it happen a million times to many other wonderful artists. Don’t quit ever or change anything for their rotten sakes. Those jerks will just never be happy even if you did create the perfect manly comic.

Wait, so people have a problem about the one-inch-by-five-inches ad? it’s so tiny! It doesn’t even get in the way of the comic!
(also, I actually looked up the advertisment site. it says you could choose the advertisment style. I quote from the site ” (graphical, text, animated, static) and their size (banner ads, skyscraper ads, and so on)
The itty-bitty, out of the way ad scares people? Apparantly making money for a comic (and about 2 dollars a day, if im not mistaken) is un-American … or un-Canadian? whatever. enjoy your cash.

If you’re doing it for the people that hate it, then stop. It’s an exercise in frustration.
If you’re doing it for the people that love it, then stop. To have pressure from other people is tiring and oppressive.
If you’re doing it for yourself and YOU like it, then by all means, this is YOUR comic. Keep doing it.

Letting other people hijack it by making stupid comments is just going to make things worse. You shouldn’t waste your time on something that’s going to bog you down.

Some people will complain about anything. The fact that you get more of them means you’re famous! Which, fortunately, also means that you can expect non-jerky people to say nice things about your awesome work. Just do what you think is best with the comic—I always find that comics are better when the author is truer to their own vision, because other people have a thousand contrasting demands. You’ve done great so far.

After reading some of the drama over the comic I came across a couple posts that made me want to speak up as a fan. I have been following the comic for a while now and think that it is very nicely done and the art is very high quality which is far more than most can say from a lot of the web comics I’ve seen. Without taking up too much “asspat” time lol, point being you have loyal fans that will patiently wait for you to do your thing and will respect you for any choice you make on YOUR comic. Thanks for doing this for us!

So as not to be sanctimonious…. people are allowed opinions. You have one, I have one, and this whole affair, fair enough. What people are not allowed to do is harass you. That’s when it’s not on. Also, *head tilt* Looking forward to an explanation later XD

Long-time reader, first time poster. Had to get an account after hearing what you went through.

I’m a teacher, and I tell my kids to do what they love, especially if it’s artistic, because there are people out there who will love their work as long as they put their heart and soul into it. Nothing is quite as rewarding as having a kid realize that they’re good at something that they never thought anyone else would value, and then watching their confidence and abilities do wondrous things because of it.

So when you see someone doing art they clearly have a passion for (And yes, this is art – It evokes emotion and is wonderful to look at over and over again :) ), and getting frustrated at the inevitably mean-spirited and harsh comments by others, it twigs something in you.

I appreciate your work. I don’t want to give you fulsome praise, but I generally dislike Mondays, and your comic has changed that. The colours you use are wonderfully vibrant, and it doesn’t hurt that your comic is routinely hilarious and entertaining. Please keep doing it, and hopefully get a few t-shirts for sale to drain my bank account :)

I would like very much to be the person who gives you an inspiring quote to keep you going despite all the… unkind remarks and idiocy that I’m sure you encounter, but it seems there have been others who’ve taken that role upon themselves, so I’ll leave them to it. I will only say that there are many of us for whom your work and its cast of characters, from Canadian Guy (My personal favourite – “I’m traaained fahr this!”, and “What do you MEAN I can’t fight Canadian Guy to death on the front lawn?”) to Jonesy (“I wonder what $500 worth of gummi bears tastes like?”), stick in our heads, and we gladly make space for them :).

Jared. I meant Jared. Jared with the massive amounts of gummi bears and the winkle pickers and the Austin Powers suit in a comic that made me laugh until I had to clean off my dinner table and learn again the lesson that drinking any liquid while reading your comic simply ends in something getting damaged :P

This comic is amazing, and I don’t think I’ve ever had a page I didn’t enjoy.

People complaining, bitching, acting anal-retentive, or whatever, is because they’re ignorant little wanks that likely can’t draw, and want to live their own little fantasies through your hands, and get cranky when the storyline doesn’t go their way.

You do some amazing work here, it’s enjoyable and entertaining and I look forward to the updates every week. Don’t let the whiny, faceless masses of the internet discourage you!

You know what’s really sad? I’m sure a lot of us sometimes wish we could do this, even other guys in the comic. But it seems the Commander is the only one who actually does (a little strange for the Prince of Persia who probably could). Makes me wonder how often he does this?
As a side note, I think this is the first fight I’ve seen drawn in the comic and it looks nice and brutal.

…instantly reminded of the Mask cartoon when the Cronos lady enters a time-loop of her constantly being smacked around before entering a time portal that sends her back to the beginning of the smacking arounds….

But then, does Commander reappear right when he disappears? Crazy time travelling things…

Yes, when future/winning commander dissapeared he was traveling a few seconds into the future, just after present/losing commander goes back in time to beat the shit out of himself and become future/winning commander.

I love your comic and I hope you don’t let the negativity get you down. If people don’t like your creativity and style then they can GTFO and go read else where. Please don’t stop being yourself, it’s part of the reason my friend and I look forward to Mondays :D

So the future one that beat him up was already wounded when he arrived? Wow, so not only can he take himself in a fight, he can take himself in a fight when he’s wounded and the other him isn’t. Oooh, headache…

Since you said at the beginning to avoid asspats, I’ll just point out that I agree with what everyone else is saying, all that “do your own thing” stuff and so on. But I do need to say that it’s really inspiring to read through these comments and see how many people care enough to advise you to do what you love no matter what the haters say. It takes a special kind of person to gain that kind of fanbase. Keep it up Coela.

I like that you equate “asspats” with “sympathy” and “explaining” with “whining”.

I can deal with ignoring people telling me how to draw my comic, I have been for the past year. But when you spend an entire night sorting through “fuck you” emails to try to figure out what happened while you were gone, maybe you’re not in the mood to get a new batch of “Draw some damned video games! This comic used to be funny! Draw me a Gyarados!” dumped on that pile right away.

To be honest, I saw the MASSIVE chunk of comments and thought ‘Do I even need to bother? Obviously everyone loves this comic.’ – and the short of it is yes, I do. Thanks for the great comic. Mac, seriously. Kudos and all that jazz. I don’t even know how to put things eloquently at this point (someone else, well a lot of someone elses, has already done that for me), but I just wanted to add my appreciation to the pile! If I ever met you, I would want to shake your hand.

Also – your Newfiese is spot on. Congratulations for figuring it out well enough to translate into the common tongue.

I felt more amused when I thought about the implications of this event.

Since the commander was not shown interfering as a third party in his own coffee stealing affair, it is safe to assume that if he does “get it back,” it must come from another coffee drinking incident.

That could place the initial coffee stealing reasonably far into the future, and among a chain of other coffee stealing events.

“Sorry, I’ll get it back in a minute”, while he assumedly enters “two minutes ago” into his gauntlet. It’s a time loop, he wouldn’t travel back in time if he didn’t need to reaquire his coffee, yet wouldn’t have a need to go back if he didn’t lose it in the first place by travelling back.

I can think of no easier, nor more plausible way to peacock infront of a lady.

Unless there’s some serious place swapping going on, the future commander is the one face slamming the other in panel 3 and 4, where he’s pretty fine, then gets an elbow up his chin in panel 5 and he gets facepalmed in panel 6, to then look about as bad as the present commander, who got face punched, face kicked, face slammed and then face punched again, in panel 7.

Also, a minute before looking fine in panel 3, he looked like present commander does in panel 10.

It’s an awesome fight with himself, and you’re trying to point out minor errors that no sane human will notice. May I also point out the detail that this is all hand-drawn, so there’s no way to guarantee continuity. So stop complaining

I did enjoy the comic, and I wasn’t complaining or even criticizing it – I was merely discussing it. Guess I should have seen this coming – commenting on a webcomic without showering it with praise, what was I thinking?

Present Commander takes a massive haymaker to the face, bruising his cheek. Present Commander kicks Future Commander in the face, spraying blood from his ‘past’ injuries everywhere. FC goes for a crash-tackle, PC redirects it and smashes FC’s face into the wall, worsening his broken nose and blackening his other eye. FC elbows PC in the jaw, busting his lip/gums, then delivers another king-hit, giving the ‘original’ black eye and busted nose that FC shows up with.

Lesson learned? Commander Badass can both take and deliver one hell of a punch. Also, he’s left handed.

Storytellers have known for a long time that attractive protagonists help viewers identify with the character. I like Old battleaxe guy better myself but I don’t begrudge pretty-boy or find it less realistic. As far as it hurting the character. Sometimes sure.